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LENIN COLLECTION
10948

REMARKS ON A LETTER FROM G. V. CHICHERIN
12 October 1919

In my view, no. We have a struggle at the first stage of the transition to communism against peasant and capitalist attempts to defend (or revive) commodity production.
Lenin

This is not a sign of capitalism. This stems from the forms of the enemy's struggle and from the level of culture, not from capitalism. Unfortunately, there is almost no real centralization.
??? This is completely wrong.

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My Dear Vladimir Ilyich

Not knowing whether you have read among the mass of radio broadcasts about Kautsky's book*, I am sending you this extract separately. Insofar as I manage to read our literature, it seems to me that we have insufficiently illuminated the role of state capitalism under proletarian political power, which escapes Kautsky's grasp.

We do not yet have communism, but state capitalism with inequality of remuneration extending to piece-work wages, with forms of coercion that sometimes reproduce the old regime, with centralization of management even of production while restricting workers' factory self-administration.

We have the Red Army of state capitalism with an apparatus of very strong coercion, rather than an army of communism...

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RESOLUTION ON THE LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE KREMLIN COMMITTEE OF THE RCP(b)
23 October 1919

Write to them (I will sign it), that [handwritten annotation: To Comrade Lenin
The Kremlin District] I thank you very much, but I ask you to release me, because I have no time.

* Reference is to the book by renegade K. Kautsky, *Terrorism and Communism*, published in Berlin in German. See V. I. Lenin's article "How the Bourgeoisie Uses Renegades" (Works, vol. XXIV, pp. 152–163).

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1919
14089

TELEGRAM TO THE PUGACHEV DISTRICT FOOD SOVIET CONFERENCE*
26 October 1919

Report immediately and precisely which villages or volosts have fulfilled the food requisition completely.

Lenin

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ON THE SANITARY SERVICE OF THE EASTERN FRONT
43840

TO ALL SOVIET INSTITUTIONS AND MILITARY AUTHORITIES
27 October 1919

The bearer—Comrade Boris Solomonovich Weissbrod, doctor, is personally known to me. An old Party worker. I request that you treat him with *complete* confidence and render him every assistance.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

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43839

MANDATE TO B. S. WEISSBROD
31 October 1919

The bearer of this document, member of the collegium of the Moscow City Department of Public Health Boris Solomonovich Weissbrod, serves as chairman of the Extraordinary Commission for the Struggle Against Typhus in the region of the Eastern Front, established by resolution

The chairman of the district food soviet conference reported in a telegram of 24 October 1919: "The food requisition has been fulfilled at 50%; certain volosts have delivered completely."